Welcome to my bonsai intensive calendar for 2024. Last year I operated 2 locations in LA, located at Yamaguchi Bonsai Nursey and in North Hollywood. The LA groups will now be consolidated into one location, at my private garden located in Arcadia. These intensives are $80/session and run from 9 AM – 2 PM. I require advance RSVP and I cap the number of members.
Currently my San Diego groups are fully booked. If you’d like to join a waiting list for San Diego, please contact me privately via the contact form on my website.
In these intensives I follow these simple principles in the following order:
1) First all work is driven by the health of a tree. As a living art, if a tree dies it ceases to be bonsai. Horticulture and health is the basis for all work.
2) If a tree is healthy it is able to respond to different bonsai based techniques. We can leverage techniques to develop a tree, create branching, and generate predictable responses.
3) With great horticulture and technique, we can pursue art and realize different aesthetic visions or philosophical concepts of bonsai.
If you are interested in participating contact me via my site or my email julian.tsai96@gmail.com. Thank you for your support.
North Hollywood Study Group – Session 4
September 9, 2023 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
| $100Our next session for the North Hollywood Study Group will be September 9th! Cost is $100, with a 50% deposit required to reserve your spot. Please RSVP or contact me at julian.tsai96@gmail.com to secure your position.
We’re leaving summer and beginning to get close to the start of fall. At this time we can expect all conifers except decandled black pines to be lignified and deciduous/broadleaf material to be finished with the bulk of their growing. This means we can do wiring/styling and structural/cut back work. Olives and tropicals are still okay to repot at this time too! One exception to this work is major defoliation or heavy cut backs on deciduous material–we are in a weird transition state where the trees are still growing, but its also not quite fall. In general, I avoid inducing heavy flushes of growth that does not have sufficient time to lignify and at minimum grow for a month before the winter/dormant period. If the tree grows too late in the year, energy that should be dedicated towards next years buds are consumed and the tree doesn’t have enough time to build energy before winter. If you have any questions on what can or can’t be done, please feel free to contact me!